Posts Tagged ‘Ubaldo’

August 17th, 2017: Ubaldo has a favorite proverb that captures his passion for clean water: “El hombre llevó a su hijo al río y le dijo, ‘Esta es tu herencia, te lo dejo todo.’” In English it reads, “The man brought his son to the river and told him, ‘This is your inheritance. I leave everything to you.’’’ He added, we are entrusted with protecting clean water, whether we grew up along the Columbia or immigrated to the Columbia Basin from elsewhere.

A new report from the Stockholm Environment Institute on a controversial fracked gas-to-methanol refinery proposed in Washington state confirms McKibben’s assertion: the Kalama methanol refinery will not help us achieve a low-carbon future or meet the goals in the Paris Climate Accords. According to the report, approving the Kalama methanol refinery “would not appear to be consistent with globally agreed climate goals of keeping warming at less than 2 degrees Celsius.”

Critical public comment period to convince Governor Inslee, and state and local officials, to stop the Kalama methanol refinery and the Kalama Lateral pipeline. The refinery would use more natural gas than all other industry in Washington combined. If we stop this project, we can protect our climate and river communities from decades of fracked gas pollution.